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Mechanical metamaterials and beyond
Nature Communications, 2023 Mechanical metamaterials enable the creation of structural materials with unprecedented mechanical properties. However, thus far, research on mechanical metamaterials has focused on passive mechanical metamaterials and the tunability of their mechanical ...
Pengcheng Jiao +4 more
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Programmable Mechanical Metamaterials [PDF]
Physical Review Letters, 2014 We create mechanical metamaterials whose response to uniaxial compression can be programmed by lateral confinement, allowing monotonic, non-monotonic and hysteretic behavior.
Coulais, Corentin +2 more
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Frontiers in Materials, 2023 Metamaterials are a group of materials/structures which possess novel behaviors not existing in nature. The metamaterials include electromagnetic metamaterials, acoustic metamaterials, mechanical metamaterials, etc.
Hao Wang +5 more
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Metarpillar: Soft robotic locomotion based on buckling-driven elastomeric metamaterials
Materials & Design, 2021 Mechanical instabilities are emerging as novel actuation mechanisms for the design of biomimetic soft robots and smart structures. The present study shows that by coupling buckling-driven elastomeric auxetic modules actuated by a negative air-pressure, a
B. Grossi +4 more
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International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2023 Multistable mechanical metamaterials are a type of mechanical metamaterials with special features, such as reusability, energy storage and absorption capabilities, rapid deformation, and amplified output forces.
Rui Xu +6 more
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Auxetic mechanical metamaterials: from soft to stiff
International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, 2023 Auxetic mechanical metamaterials are artificially architected materials that possess negative Poisson’s ratio, demonstrating transversal contracting deformation under external vertical compression loading.
Xiang Li +4 more
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Deformation behavior and band gap switching function of 4D printed multi-stable metamaterials
Materials & Design, 2021 Metamaterials/Phononic crystals are used to control the propagation of elastic waves/sound waves, and can be used in fields such as vibration isolation, noise reduction, stealth, focusing, and acoustic wave devices. The realization of real-time, flexible
Wenxia Hu +8 more
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Programmable and multistable metamaterials made of precisely tailored bistable cells
Materials & Design, 2023 This study proposes a systematic inverse design framework for constructing multistable mechanical metamaterials with programmable gradients. Herein, we designed the tailored bistable cells with precisely controlled maximum instability forces through the ...
Kuan Liang +5 more
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Materials & Design, 2023 Mechanical metamaterials are regularly implemented in engineering applications due to their unique properties derived from their structural geometry and material composition.
Nathan K. Brown +6 more
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Metal-organic framework based on hinged cube tessellation as transformable mechanical metamaterial [PDF]
, 2019 Mechanical metamaterials exhibit unusual properties, such as negative Poisson???s ratio, which are difficult to achieve in conventional materials. Rational design of mechanical metamaterials at the microscale is becoming popular partly because of the ...
Choe, Wonyoung +7 more
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